Supreme Court of India
Ex-capt. Ashok Kumar Sawhney v. Union of India & Others
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we accept the petition, quash the seniority list abovementioned as well as the letter by which the representation there against made by the petitioner was rejected and direct respon dent No. l to re-frame the seniority list assigning the petitioner seniority in accordance with law as explained above.
Judgment, page 5
From the headnote
sub-rule (3) of Rule 6, Rule 8 of the Rules declares in no uncertain terms that all rules regulating the recruitment of persons to Central Civil Services and Posts, Class I, to which the Rules apply, shall be deemed to have been amended to the extent provided for in the Rules. Although the rules regulating the seniority of the petitiopers and respondents Nos. 2 to 14 were so amended earlier to 1971 as to assign to the petitioner seniority below respondents Nos 2 to 14, the situation is Wholly irrelevant to the present dispute because after the ameOdooent brought about by Rule 8 of the Rules,
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